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Features

Addressing Process and Product

• Vignettes beginning each chapter present an intimate look at real classroom teachers and their teaching of writing.
• Minilessons model five basic steps for teaching essential strategies and skills to young writers.
• Step by Step features offer detailed guidance for planning instruction and assessment, organizing learning, and managing classroom writing projects.   

Meeting Individual Student Needs

Scaffolding English Learners features pinpoint ways to support student writers whose first language is not English.

Planning for Accountability  

• Rubrics throughout chapters help you address and clarify assessment issues. 
• Instructional Previews identify goals that help you plan for teaching by addressing the question of what to teach and when.

New To This Edition

Addressing Process and Product

NEW! A Writing Workshop CD now included in every copy of the text gives you specific insight into classroom teaching in a workshop model, illustrating both the writing process and product.

Meeting Individual Student Needs

NEW! How to Address Struggling Writers’ Problems-- this step by step analysis explains what issues cause writers to struggle, provides clear examples of the problem, and clarifies the steps to take to help writers overcome their obstacles.

Planning for Accountability  

NEW! Preparing for Writing Tests --this new feature will help you prepare students for high-stakes testing by clearly defining each type of writing, providing prompts to generate a writing sample, and outlining possible pitfalls writers may face when writing in this specific genre.

Table of Contents

PART I        Process and Product

Chapter 1        Teaching Children to Write

Chapter 2        Writing Workshop

Chapter 3        Writing Strategies and Skills

Chapter 4        Assessing Children's Writing

Chapter 5        Journal Writing

Chapter 6        Letter Writing

Chapter 7        Biographical Writing

Chapter 8        Expository Writing

Chapter 9        Narrative Writing

Chapter 10      Descriptive Writing

Chapter 11      Poetry Writing

Chapter 12      Persuasive Writing

Courses

Elementary Writing Methods (K-8)  [CORE TEXTS]   (Reading & Literacy)

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• Teaching Writing: Balancing Process and Product, 6/E
  Tompkins
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  This best selling text by Gail Tompkins thoroughly examines genres and instructional procedures with a strong new focus on differentiating instruction to ensure success for all writing students. New chapters on the writer's craft and on writing across the curriculum offer detailed information on the six traits of good writing as well as writing in content areas, and new features provide insight into teaching English learners and using technology meaningfully in the writing classroom.

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Author Bios

Gail E. Tompkins is Professor Emerita at California State Unversity, Fresno, and she continues to direct the San Joaquin Valley Writing Project.  She regularly works with teachers in their kindergarten through eighth-grade classrooms and leads staff development programs on reading, language arts, and writing.  In 1998 Dr. Tompkins was inducted into the California Reading Association's Reading Hall of Fame in recognition of her publication and other accomplishments in the field of reading, and recently she was awarded the prestigious Provost's Award for Excellence in Teaching at California's State University, Fresno.

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Knowing that you must balance your focus in the classroom on the process that children use as they write and the quality of their compositions, Teaching Writing continues to provide a comprehensive look at both process and product.  This new edition provides you with practical strategies for teaching and assessing writing, with a focus on individual student needs and teacher accountability. Additional features will help you recognize the concerns of struggling writers, the needs of English learners, and the strategies you can use to improve student test taking.

Addressing Process and Product

• Vignettes beginning each chapter present you with an intimate look at real classroom teachers and their teaching of writing.
• Minilessons model five basic steps for teaching essential strategies and skills to young writers.
• Step by Step features offer detailed guidance for planning instruction and assessment, organizing learning, and managing classroom writing projects.   
• The free CD-ROM Writing Workshop gives you specific insight into classroom teaching in a workshop model, illustrating both the writing process and product.

Meeting Individual Student Needs

• How to Address Struggling Writers’ Problems This step by step analysis explains what issues cause writers to struggle, provides clear examples of the problem, and clarifies the steps to take to help writers overcome their obstacles.
• Scaffolding English Learners features pinpoint ways to support student writers whose first language is not English.

Planning for Accountability  

• Preparing for Writing Tests This new feature will help you prepare students for high-stakes testing by clearly defining each type of writing, providing prompts to generate a writing sample, and outlining possible pitfalls writers may face when writing in this specific genre.
• Rubrics throughout chapters help you address and clarify assessment issues. 
• Instructional Previews identify goals that help you plan for teaching by addressing the question of what to teach and when.

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